Fun With Dick and Jane

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Once a beloved teaching tool, Dick and Jane was later denounced as dull, counterproductive, and even misogynistic. A former teacher from Laporte, Ind. Gray with an idea that would change the face of American literacy. So Sharp proposed a collection of short stories that would each introduce a handful of new words. And—critically—these characters would appear in simple illustrations designed to help connect a given word with its definition.

Fun with Dick & Jane

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The story focuses on a married, middle-class couple who resort to robbery when the husband's employer goes bankrupt. The following day, he is on a television program with presidential candidate Ralph Nader , who calls Globodyne "perverters of the American dream", claiming it helps the super-rich get even wealthier. As they speak, Globodyne's stock value collapses, rendering all investments — including all the employees' savings and pensions — worthless. Dick breaks the news of the company's failure over dinner.